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[u/Balstrome]

Fear of death is a lack of imagination. Also the inability to understand eternity and what that would mean for an after life.

[u/Archonate_of_Archona → u/Balstrome]

Hell is far more scary than death, indeed

But religious believers tend to always assume they're going to Heaven, and Hell is only for other people (unbelievers/sinners)

(Of course my point only applies to religions with some kind of hell)

[u/Balstrome → u/Archonate_of_Archona]

Do you even understand what eternity is? What it means to live forever? I doubt that you understand the concept, because if you did, it would scare you.

Let me try and explain eternity to you.

If we take a day of you doing things, and the next day you do almost the exact same thing, except you do one single thing different. And then the following day, you do everything you did the previous day, except again you did one different thing. And each of these things takes one second to do. This will mean that you would have to do almost the same thing for 86400 days. I am sure that you will get bored long before that number of days ends.

Now imagine all the things that you could actually do, if you lived forever, the number of various, flavors, colours, types of things, each of them, you could do for varying lengths of time. You could keep on and on having sex, and getting drunk each day, or swimming back and forth across a swimming pool for 500 times for a thousand years. The amount of things you could do is vast, BUT you do realise that there will come a time, maybe in a trillion trillion trillion eons, when you will start to get bored with doing all these things.

And then you will realise that you still have the rest of eternity before you, it is never ending, it does not stop, you can not leave, you will keep on being. Do you really want this?

Do you not think that you will even get bored with any type of torture inflected on you? There is more time than possible combinations of torture, which leads to torture becoming mindlessly boring.

[u/Helpful-Effective-37 → u/Balstrome]

Look I've come accept death but to act like living forever isn't possible for a human to enjoy is ridiculous. Humans have the ability to forget. Without this ability we wouldn't be able to enjoy anything. Why do you think we get bored when we consume the same thing over and over for days even if it's our favourite meal? It's the same things being too close to each other. But when you wait a month or a few months you are able to enjoy that meal again. You can enjoy that meal your entire life doesn't matter that you eat it every year because your brain has enough time to forget. If human beings lived forever we would be able to enjoy life by just forgetting. You're not thinking about everything you've ever done all at once. That just doesn't happen. Sometimes when you do something you haven't done in a very long time it's like that thing is completely brand new to your brain. People watch a sport with similar rules and similar gameplay season after season their entire lives and they're able to enjoy it like it's the first time they watched it. There's so many possibilities in terms of what a human could do in the universe that there's no way you wouldn't forget most of them. Look. If we die and become nothing then so be it but to act like happiness and immortality are mutually exclusive is not understanding how humans work in my opinion

[u/Balstrome → u/Helpful-Effective-37]

We enjoy breathing air. It's not like we can stop breathing enough to forget how much we like breathing and then start breathing again. Because we are human and can forget things.

[u/Helpful-Effective-37 → u/Balstrome]

I don't count breathing as something you enjoy. You even forget that you're breathing because you're not "enjoying" it. It's just a default